hello everybody and welcome back to the channel today we're going to be trying something a little
different than the normal gameplay that i do i've done in the past both no commentary at all and
i've also done live commentary what we're going to try today is a little bit of post commentary
on a game that i had in this sim today with the maus i was trying out the new
apheds round which i gotta say i am very much liking so far so the advantage of this apheds
round is that it gets increased penetration at both angles as well as having the higher muzzle
velocity which helps with sniping a lot the main downfall of this round is the fact that it has
less explosive filler if you look at the pzgr 43 you're getting 550 grams of explosive mass
whereas this one only has 64 grams but considering the fact that in this sim you're facing
majority soviet tanks that means that the crew is going to be pretty compact so any penetrating
hit is going to kill them and honestly anything that you face if you pin it with an 88 millimeter
it's probably going to die even in rb so i have a feeling that this round is going to be really
really good to use even as a primary in the replay you'll see that i was carrying a couple of the
other rounds but that's just because i didn't know how this was going to perform and i didn't want to
roll out with a full thing of ammo and then fire two shots bounce both of them and be like huh
well i'm screwed but let's jump into the replay and i'll be commentating over top of it and we'll
kind of be talking about what i'm doing in the battle and a little bit about the mouse itself
because this is one of if not my favorite tanks of all time all right and here we are on finland i
went ahead and skipped a little bit of me driving in and by a little bit i mean like five minutes
as you can see on the top because the maus is not very fast but that does not mean that you can't do
very well in this tank so this is a sim battle which means i went ahead and turned off the
markers and everything in this so you're getting the full impression of what i was seeing give or
take a little bit the replay system in this game is far from perfect so ignore some of the little
glitches and stuff that you'll notice and there's also a couple sound issues i'll try to lower the
audio just so that you don't have to listen to the really obnoxious sound i think it's when i
get over by the pt 76 it started making like a weird plane sound which i don't even remember
there being a plane up when i was playing so i don't know what's up with that i'm sure that's
just something to do with four thunders hundreds of sound issues but i digress what am i doing in
the Maus here so on finland i play this map very very specifically every time i get the battle
version now with the conquest version or the domination where there's multiple caps you play it
a little bit different but when there's a battle mode on this map always always always go to your
cap circle these games are always won and lost depending on who defends their cap point better
and this match is no exception because you'll see that i drive over onto the A point there's also a
conqueror with me i believe he does get knocked out later on but by holding this cap circle i am
going to guarantee the fact that our team wins because what ends up happening if you don't do
this is the enemy team will rush and get onto the A point like that pt 76 and this map and just ends
the game just ends so fast because somebody will get on nobody goes and resets the cap
because they're too busy focusing on capping and this map is always determined by capping
when it's on a battle mode so we're able to knock out this t-54 who was thinking he was going to
be sneaky and come up and then i noticed this little t-34 100 who thinks he's gonna go ahead
and try to slap me frontally nice try you need to actually aim for the turret peaks there bud
but already we're cleaning up one tank with the apheds easy shot right to the side granted the
128 would do the same but right here we're able to snap a shot into his engine which i was actually
really impressed by the post pen with that shell i thought for sure that wouldn't kill him but uh i'm
not sure if the extra velocity on this round helps a little bit with that post pen war thunder's
really weird with that like higher velocity shells tend to do more damage post pen for
some reason i guess it makes a little bit of sense but i don't know that's just me
uh kind of being a little bit of a uh conspiracy theorist there that's what it feels like i know it
when it comes to hull break it takes a new effect but regardless we knocked out those two guys
and now i'm just sitting here because i'm a Maus what am i going to do on this map i'm going to
run around and try to chase people down no i maxed out at 20 kilometers an hour on a good day going
downhill with the wind behind me so i'm going to just try to this guy was burning so i try to push
him out of the way so i can see better but i'm trying to just kind of sit here and be a bunker
that's what the Maus is really good at is taking up a position and just defending and you would do
the same with this if our point was the b point for example let's say i'm coming from that other
spawn get up into that area around e4 i believe it is and you sit right on that corner angled
and just keep people from getting onto the b point here we go we catch a t-54 i could hear him coming
he's trying to sneak up i don't think he even sees me which i guess our winter camo made us invisible
to him or something but uh catch him through the side that was a really strong pen there through
that side plate being really angled i think that comes down to the better pen on angles that the uh
APHEDS gets which i'll take it easy shot through that guy and i think i put in
hello there because he just rolls up completely oblivious to the fact that i was sitting there
which i mean he might need to get his eyes checked because the mouse is far from stealthy especially
when uh you're in the middle of the open maybe you just thought it was a giant white rock
but now i was sitting here and you can you might be able to hear it in the replay i could hear an
engine sound so i knew there was another guy coming that's why i'm watching this corner and
i was expecting him to just be kind of trying to sneak up and poke around that corner and shoot me
knowing his friend died but then i saw him sneak up here i didn't even know you could go up through
this opening so well played to him that was a very clever maneuver but i'm able to snap a shot into
his track blow it off and at this angle there's really no way i'm going to be able to pen the t54
1947 that thing is insanely good upper and lower frontal hull armor even the turret is extremely
troll but i'm still trying nonetheless you know i'm testing out the round i want to see hey what
sort of weird like bs shots can i pull off with this round knowing how much velocity it has but
still not quite enough to contest the front of that soviet machine and he eventually gets his
track fixed and he's trying to push up here so i try another shot into the upper plate
ends up hitting the lower plate doesn't go through which is a little surprising
i know that that plate is really strong but i would have thought that the apheds
would be able to go through it but i guess the angle was just too steep
so i kind of push forward i'm angling the turret constantly you want to make sure you do that in
the Maus and i wish i had been reloaded there i could have snapped one through his lower plate
when it flattened there but he pushes forward flattens his upper plate and i snap on right
through but what i was trying to say before is keep the mouse's turret angled when you're not
shooting and reloading because if you don't they can snap a shot through your um cheeks even though
they have been buffed they're still the weak spot in front of the mouse so if you angle those like i
said in my mouse guide which you should check out if you feel like you want to play this tank well
you just angle those cheeks and it basically means that you're invulnerable frontally unless they
have heat and here comes the fun police trying to come in and bomb me but luckily i'm able to
ignore the really wonky replay bomb but i'm able to back up he does get my tracks and somehow my
machine gun but nonetheless i'm still able to turn the turret as this su-100p bears down on me
now i was a little worried that he would have gone through my um turret cheek there but it
looks like he either tried to upper front plate or lower plate me which uh very bad move on his part
and i'm trying to just machine gun at his crew i ended up getting his engine i don't know how
i didn't hole break him there but i'm able to hole break him with the 75 which that's a very
good thing that you can do with the Maus another thing when you're facing up against ifvs
use the smaller gun if you can get the drop down on it you will be able to hold break things
easily once you get that 100 millimeter round you can hold break things like bradley's bmps
warriors basically anything that can be whole broken because it's a 75 millimeter so try not to
waste your 128 i mean if you have nothing else to shoot at use both but if you have multiple targets
use the 75 and i don't know what happened with that bomb because it just kind of vanished i think
what happened is it landed in a different spot in the game but the replay showed it landing there
i don't know bombs have been really weird lately but that's pretty much the end of this game
so uh let's just hop out and see what the results were so since i was stupid and didn't save the
actual post better results screen we're just gonna have to go off the one that you can pull up here
but it does give you the general idea of what i was able to achieve which i got around 50 000
silver lions in total made about 40 grand with it after repairing the mouse which i will say the one
downside of playing the Maus in sim which is the best place to play it if you're going to is the
repair cost it's like 33 000 it used to be like 42 000 so it's a lot cheaper than it was but it's
still a very very pricey tank to play so if you're trying to earn money don't play the Maus in sim
if you want to have fun with the mouse play the mouse and sim because that is the best unless
you get a 77 rb game which let's be honest pretty rare but if you can get one it's better in rb but
on average it's better in sim because you're normally facing off against just soviet tanks
that don't have much in the way of heat and you can pretty reliably pen them as long as you know
to shoot for the sides and not the upper front or lower front plate of the t54 1947s but regardless
i hope you guys enjoyed the video because that's it for today if you'd like to see me take out
the mouse again in the future let me know in the comments and leave a like on this video
i'm probably going to see if i can ask for a test drive of the e100
in the future to test out the round on that tank as well but i have to see if gaijin
will give it to me they're kind of a little finicky about giving out the e100 test drives
and i've already done it once so i might not be able to get one we'll have to see about that i'll
have to ask so uh let me know what you think of this video and this style of video in the descript
in the description i did it again in the comments and i'll see if you guys enjoyed it and if you
did i'll try to do it again but uh until the next video good luck and i'll see you there